I tried for a couple of minutes and it works fine, although sometimes it won’t start playing the video automatically even if it’s already downloading. You can download it on the WebTorrent website, or check out its source code on Feross’ GitHub page. Second, the program can link to peers on both WebRTC clients like WebTorrent as well as Bittorrent clients such as uTorrent. On the other hand, WebTorrent users can connect only with each other. So why would you bother downloading the desktop app when WebTorrent can stream within your browser? First, WebTorrent Desktop has a more user-friendly visual interface. All you need is a torrent file or a magnet link to start streaming. Ferros recently released an offshoot of WebTorrent called WebTorrent Desktop.īoth WebTorrent and WebTorrent Desktop let you play video or audio files as they’re being downloaded.

But Feross has been working on something much bigger called WebTorrent. It’s a JavaScript torrent client for web browsers that uses WebRTC, an API that lets browsers share data without additional plugins. You may know programmer Feross Aboukhadijeh from his real-time YouTube search page YouTube Instant.

Webtorrent desktop